CentOS Administrator Reappears

str8edge sends word that Lance Davis, the CentOS project administrator who had mysteriously gone absent, has now returned and is working with the development team to get things back on track. From their announcement: "The CentOS Development team had a routine meeting today with Lance Davis in attendance. During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues. There should be no impact to any CentOS users going forward. The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains and owns all trademarks, materials, and artwork in the CentOS distributions. We look forward to working with Lance to quickly complete all the agreed upon issues. More information will follow soon."

Comments

Maybe they should update the frontpage....

[117]

of their website:

CentOS has numerous advantages over some of the other clone projects including....developers who are contactable and responsive

Re:More likely

[yttrstein]

Here's how you deal with the Lance situation, if what you're saying is true:

You fire him before his immaturity costs the company any money, which seems to in this case be about a year ago.

So you break open the servers and the code that runs them and its a pain in the ass. Keeping an immature brat on as the "main web guy" is insane, as there are so many very talented "main web guys" currently looking for work. Give the job to someone who appreciates it, and grow some balls.

Re:I'm really glad to hear this!

[nawcom]

None of these issues involve CentOS themselves. iwl3945 in the linux kernel supports every aspect of the 3945abg - from monitor support to the little slashy lights laptops have under the display that shows wireless activity. Alps is also fully supported in X11, configure xorg.conf for it.

Not a big deal; right now I'm using 32-bit Windows XP Home edition as my primary OS and 32-bit CentOS 5 is in a virtual machine for Linux open-source software development

You're hardly a software developer - you aren't willing to find solutions yourself - you expect some distro with a dickhead of an admin to make it so it magically works. Seriously, these issues you list don't exist and don't depend on the distro at all. You're a developer - compile your own kernel.

but I'm wondering if anyone has backported the newer Alps touchpad driver to work with CentOS's version of X

The source code is free. CentOS doesn't use an ancient version, so compile it. git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/. That's what synaptics and alps use. Backported? wtf? CentOS uses X.org code so I'm a little lost on what the hell you mean.

Anyways, my point of this response is that your issues are bullshit if you are going to wear a developer's mask.

Re:Great way to piss off LTS userbase.

[arcade]

Grow a pair of balls.

Seriously.

They did what they had to do, to get control over some important aspects of the project - while all the main developers were still behind it.

If you had bothered to spend about one minute researching the topics before you had meetings with "your team", you would have discovered that the developers openly said that everything would continue as before. Worst case scenario: They would've have to move the domain-name and get new IRC channels, plus they would have lost some donations.

That you overreacted like some crazy clown .. well, that's entirely your fault, and nobody elses.